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Just to let you know that the team will be off work on Monday, August 2nd, due to a stat holiday.

Also, we have some open positions at Hinterland, working on (obviously) The Long Dark. If you, or someone you know, meets these qualifications and is interested in contributing to the ongoing development of the game, please get in touch!

http://hinterlandgames.com/career-opportunities/

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Before you jump on us in the comments --

1) Yes, we are working on another Sandbox update, for August
2) Yes, we are also working hard on finishing the features and content we're launching with Story Mode
3) No, we are not providing a revised launch date yet

As we did with the September Sandbox Update, we are implementing a TEST BRANCH for The Long Dark's December Update. This reflects the fact that we have a huge diversity of players on a variety of hardware configurations, and as a small studio we just can’t test them all!

The idea here is to provide an early version of the next update, about a week or so before we’d like to launch it officially in the Release branch (i.e. where you are currently getting it), so that we get some extra time to find bugs, crashes, and any other issues before it goes lives for the rest of our community.
>>> IF YOU DO NOT OPT-IN TO THE TEST BRANCH, YOU WILL NOT GET IT. I.e. You will not get the Test Branch build "by accident". This should help keep spoilers to a minimum. Here on Official Forums the Test Branch Discussion subforum requires a password to access. The password is: test_branch
Some details. READ THESE CAREFULLY:

* The Test Branch is for STEAM ONLY. It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
* The Test Branch is full of SPOILERS. If you don’t want to see what’s in the next update, stay out of the Test Branch and all its discussions.
* The Test Branch is a tool for us to find issues with Work In Progress features. We’re primarily looking for feedback on bugs, crashes, and any major balancing issues.
* When reporting on bugs or issues, please use the appropriate TEST BRANCH sub-forums on Steam and in our Official Community. DO NOT DISCUSS TEST BRANCH FEATURES outside the Test Branch sub-forums. Those posts will be moved or deleted.
* When reporting on bugs or issues, please use the posted bug submission procedures. This will help the development team filter the feedback, eliminate duplicates, and in general ensure we can act on the feedback in a more timely fashion.

Our hope is that this new Test Branch process will allow us to ensure we can continue to put out stable Sandbox updates well into the future.

We’re very hopeful that the people who choose to opt-in to this Test Branch will approach this as a way to help ensure the updates are as smooth and stable as possible, and not use the Test Branch discussion as a forum to lobby for or against certain features or content.

As always, The Long Dark is a community-informed, not community-driven, project. We look forward to enlisting your help in identifying whatever issues we’ve missed in our own internal testing!